This is a good analysis. People always forget that real competition improves everything. If another network offers something that is important to users, so important that their quality of life goes way up, well, it's time to have a closer look and take the competition seriously. Users are very feature-oriented and we are spoiled. FB and others have so many features, it's ridiculous. 
If I don't feel safe somewhere, and another network has addressed my very important need, naturally, I will go where my needs are being properly addressed. That's just the reality. I took significant heat for my honest feelings, but that is the nature of the mob mentality when personal gain is attached. 
I don't operate on personal gain like most people. I am not attached to money in the same way as others. I notice me being attached, and then I become aware of how that is having a negative effect. Then, I spend time looking within to find out why I feel weird, uneasy........this happened to me on Steemit. Now, I am not worried about losing anything. Whatever I made, I can make again. The important thing is to align my energies with expressing the truth, even if that truth makes the power players uncomfortable. I have to be honest with my energy or else my art will suck. That's the deal that artists/pure creators make with themselves. That's also why they are not usually motivated by money. Money creates short term people.